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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Thomas H NOTLEY of Bedfordshire
« on: Wednesday 17 December 14 04:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks you, Sarah and nannyj, for your helpful replies.
I'm searching backwards and will indeed post my query on the Bedfordshire board (when I've figured out what that is...)
Happy Christmas!

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Essex Lookup Requests / Re Thomas H NOTLEY Wilhamstead c1836
« on: Monday 15 December 14 06:38 GMT (UK)  »
`Dulverton`, thanks very much for posting this 7 years on!  Seven years pass quickly in this pursuit...

I continue to search for the family of my great-grandfather, Thomas Henry Notley
  born 1836 variously in Wilsted, Wilhamstead, Bedford, or Bedfordshire to Joseph Notley
  married 9 Oct 1877 in West Ham, Essex to Jessie Dale, nee Dobinson
      living 21 Hermit Road, Plaistow, Essex 16 Jun 1878
      living 4 Victoria Road, Barking Road, West Ham 23 Dec 1879
      living 7 Victoria Road, West Ham, Essex 3 Apr 1881
      living 3 Outram Street, Plaistow, Essex 18 Jul 1884
      living 82 Broght Road, Grays, Essex 22 Apr 1887
      living 8 Credon Road, West Ham, Essex 31 Mar 1901
  died 24 Oct 1909 at Brighton Mental Hospital, Wivelsfield, Sussex
  Children's names:  Martha Sarah, Henry William, Albert Thomas, Alfred Edward, and Jessie May

I've paid a researcher who couldn't find anything about his birth; it's kinda frustrating being half a world away (Vancouver Island).

I've been unable to send "Personal Messages" via RootsChat.  I wonder if these persons are still interested in searching for NOTLEY connections? - cathy (cathymcc)   joe (Sisterjan)   richard (rjknott)   Dulverton


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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: 1871 Thomas H NOTLEY
« on: Saturday 17 February 07 00:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hello out there:
   This is my fist posting to "Roots Chat"; my query to cathymcc about Thomas Henry NOTLEY got this thread started.  I'm VERY impressed by the helpful responses!!

   I've a social comment on the last posting, regarding the tragedy of children raised in a workhouse.
   It's very clear that Elizabeth Notley, the Luton lodger in the 1861 census, was raised in a workhouse.  In the 1841 census she's a 2 year old "inmate" in the Bedfod Union workhouse; in the 1851 census she's a 12 year old "inmate" in a workhouse in Cambridgeshire.
   No surprise, then, that at age 22 she's an unwed Mum with a 1 year old daughter, and she's probably a clever brat.  Nonetheless as a great-grandpa-of-8 I can't help but think I'd want to put my arms around her and tell her that we loved her and that she should come live with us.  Pretty sappy, eh?  Poor kid must have had a tough life in those Blake-ian 'dark satanic mills' days.

  Two questions:
1.  What's the actual wording of her occupation on the 1861 census (see attached image that I hope shows up)?  The previous posting says it means bonnet maker.

2.  I can't get the picture to show up on my profile, using the third "browse to your image file" option.  It's small enough (less than 500 Kb).  Any ideas?

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